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The static routes in Windows don't support failover, it will continue to use the route with the lower priority. You would need a hardware firewall/router that has failover capabilities.<br />

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The static routes in Windows don't support failover, it will continue to use the route with the lower priority. You would need a hardware firewall/router that has failover capabilities.


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Is the fact that Windows doesnt support failover something new? &nbsp; It works perefectly on all nodes running Windows XP. &nbsp;It seems odd Microsoft would take away that functionlity. &nbsp;Please advise.
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Is the fact that Windows doesnt support failover something new?   It works perefectly on all nodes running Windows XP.  It seems odd Microsoft would take away that functionlity.  Please advise.

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Hello,<br />
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I have two internet gateways from 2 different service providers, the intention being that if one Internet Gateway went down then interent traffic would route thru the other gateway. &nbsp;I added persistent route statements to my PC &nbsp;(using route -p add cmd) and assigned a metric of 1 to the faster connection and and a metric of 10 to the slower one. &nbsp;In short if the Gateway with a metric of 1 goes down--it does not failover to the other Gateway. &nbsp;How can I rectify this?<br />
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Thanks<br />
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Upon further investigation I have found the failover works on Windows XP boxes but NOT Vista and Windows 7. &nbsp;What the difference ?<br />

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Hello,

I have two internet gateways from 2 different service providers, the intention being that if one Internet Gateway went down then interent traffic would route thru the other gateway.  I added persistent route statements to my PC  (using route -p add cmd) and assigned a metric of 1 to the faster connection and and a metric of 10 to the slower one.  In short if the Gateway with a metric of 1 goes down--it does not failover to the other Gateway.  How can I rectify this?

Thanks

Upon further investigation I have found the failover works on Windows XP boxes but NOT Vista and Windows 7.  What the difference ?


Setting up one Gateway to failover to a second in the event of an outage

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DHCP

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